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struggle4progress

(125,390 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2023, 10:23 PM Jan 2023

Santos: The Real Resume

By Jack Holmes
PUBLISHED: JAN 19, 2023

... A lot of people .. have known him as Anthony Devolder, including his former roommate. A Brazilian drag performer who claims Santos used to be in that scene says she knew him as "Kitara Ravache" ... CNN's Andrew Kaczynski reports he's now come across eight names Santos has used over the years ...

Santos did not merely say he attended Baruch. He said he went on a volleyball scholarship and the team "slayed" Harvard and Yale. He also said he "sacrificed" his knees and had to get them replaced. He is allegedly 34 years old right now ...

Our hero said he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. No. He did reportedly have ties to Harbor City Capital, a Florida firm accused of running a Ponzi scheme ...

Santos said his grandparents were Ukrainian Jewish refugees who survived the Holocaust ... The Forward found his grandparents were born in Brazil ...

Santos said his mother was in the South Tower .. on September 11 ... The New York Times reviewed his mother's immigration paperwork, in which she said she hadn't been in the United States between 1999 and 2003. In July 2021, he tweeted that "9/11 claimed my mothers life," though .. his mother's death .. actually occurred in 2016 ...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a42571497/george-santos-resume-baruch-volleyball-goldman-sachs/

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Santos: The Real Resume (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2023 OP
George Santos Biography keithbvadu2 Jan 2023 #1
99.9% cut and paste dalton99a Jan 2023 #4
HeLiesa DoLittle blm Jan 2023 #2
Kickin' Faux pas Jan 2023 #3
Wouldn't his involvement with Harbor City Capital require a license TexasBushwhacker Jan 2023 #5

TexasBushwhacker

(21,098 posts)
5. Wouldn't his involvement with Harbor City Capital require a license
Sun Jan 22, 2023, 03:02 PM
Jan 2023

from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)? I guess not, since Harbor City Capital has been closed down and its owner, Jonathan P Maroney, has been charged with securities fraud.

Found some old YouTube videos:

https://youtube.com/@HarborCityCapital

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